Promised Land, The: Poems from Itinerant Life
Andre Naffis-Sahely
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 03-08-2017
£7.99
Description
While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .__________________________________________________Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day London to North America, Andre Naffis-Sahely’s bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: labourers, travellers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. ‘Naffis-Sahely’s poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk . . . His narratives hold memory to account’DAVID HARSENT
Additional information
Weight | 0.082 kg |
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Dimensions | 6 × 134 × 197 mm |
Page Count | 80 |